What to know
- The United States and Israel unleashed fresh strikes on Iran, hitting oil structures and water treatment plants, as the costly U.S.-Israel war with Iran spiraled into its second week with no clear exit strategy.
- Iran, which retaliated with a barrage of strikes on U.S. targets in neighboring Arab countries, named Mojtaba Khamenei the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike on the first day of the joint military assault on Feb. 28. President Donald Trump did not rule out accepting a new Iranian leader with ties to the old regime, but said the successor “is not going to last long” without his approval.
- The Pentagon announced that two more U.S. service members have died — one from injuries sustained during an Iranian attack on American troops in Saudi Arabia last week and another, a National Guard soldier, from a health-related incident in Kuwait on March 6, bringing to eight the total number of U.S. service members who have died during the war.
- Trump has not ruled out sending U.S. ground troops to the Middle East, where roughly 1,845 people have been killed in Iran, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Israel, Kuwait, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain.